First, the students will make a prediction of what will happen in the story.…

Bloom's Taxonomy (cognitive domain) orders learning behaviours into six levels — Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation — each defined by the mental operation a learner performs, not by the subject matter. Classifying a task means matching what the student actually does to the level whose defining operation it represents.

Here three separate acts are performed in sequence. Predicting what will happen next draws on understanding what has already been read and using that understanding to infer a plausible continuation — this is a comprehension-level operation. Listing the main events that have already occurred in the story is a straightforward recall of stated facts — a knowledge-level operation. Writing a review of the story requires forming and expressing a judgement about its quality or merit — an evaluation-level operation. So the three skills used, in the order given, are Comprehension, Knowledge, and Evaluation.

• This combination assigns the first two tasks a level of complexity — executing a set procedure, and combining separate elements into something new — that overstates what a text-based inference and a plain recall of stated events actually involve.

• This combination correctly reads the first two tasks but treats writing a review as though it required breaking the story down into its component parts and relationships, rather than forming a judgement on its overall quality.

• This combination treats the opening task as though a judgement on the story's worth were already being formed, and the closing task as though something new were being assembled, when the behaviour described is closer to inference and to critique of what already exists.